On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 11:42 AM Michael Andres via openSUSE Factory <factory@lists.opensuse.org> wrote:
(And yes, a convenient command to manip the user/auto installed state of a package is still missing. By now package names can be added/removed to /var/lib/zypp/AutoInstalled. What's not mentioned in there is treated as user-installed)
What is rather confusing to users^Wadmins is the fact that packages automatically selected during installation/administration are considered "user installed" although users most definitely never consciously installed them. This may happen as an example due to some YaST module adding packages needed by this module, there could be other cases (I have feeling that everything added during initial installation is considered "user installed", but I may be wrong here). "User installed" implies that it is human action, maybe some other word could be used here ("explicitly installed" or similar).